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SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20.- |917.

u ""III Patented Apr. 23,1918.

" s; ,I M I II II I I Br v A Tron/vm MRJEIM FISHER, 0F YORK, hl. Y.

SHIRT.

Speeieation of Letters Patent.

Fatented dpr. 23, 1919.

Application led September 20, 1917. Serial No. 192,343.

To all whom t may concern.'

lBe it known that l, ABRAHAM FISHER, a citizen of the 'United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of' Bronx, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented a new and llmproved Shirt, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to convertible shirts. rllhe object of the invention is to provide a shirt adapted to present 'a rolling collar or an ordinary collar band.

This application is an improvement over the shirt disclosed in my a plication No. 147,063, filed February 7, 191 allowed August 2, 1917.

The invention is characterized from the shirt disclosed in the above application by the elimination of the liff-shaped notch in the folding band and-by the elimination of the daps on the inner side of the shirt.

ln the accompanying drawings, forming part of the application, similar characters of reference indicate correspondingpartsin all the views.

Figure `1 is a front elevation of the shirt when worn` with a rolling collar;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the shirt when worn to present a shirtband to receive a detachable collar;

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the front collar vblank shown as it pappears'secured to thev shirt Fig. 4 is an elevation of the rear collar blank shown secured to the shirt;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the shirt collar when the collar blanks are folded outwardly to present a collar band doubled outwardly to receive a detachable collar;

Fig. 6 is a similar view showing the collar band doubled inwardly; e

Fig. 7 is a cross section on line 7-7,

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y ig. 8 is a cross section on line 9 8, Fig. t; and

Fig. 9 is an elevation of the blanks fornaing the collar, showing the manner in which the lining -for the collar is formed. This Y hgure also shows the blanks slightly modi- `hed from those illustrated in the vother gures.

Referring to the drawings, the neck band 9 is formed of an outer blank 10 of suitable shape and an inner blank 11 in the shape of an arch, the upper part of said blank 11 heing similar 1n shape to the outer blank 10.

It may be trapezoidal, as shown in Figs. 1 to 8 inclusive, or rectangular, as shown in Fig. 9. The wider edge of the outer blank is` secured through its entire length to the shirt material at the neck opening with the exception of the middle portion thereof which gives access lto the rear buttonhole '12.

'llhe inner blank is secured only through the straight portion of its inner edge to the materlal of the shirt at the neck opening, thereby`leaving the Hap portions 13 on the inner ,edge unsecured, while the outer edge of said flap portions is' secured to the material of the shirt at the front opening 0f the shirt. The two blanks are secured toeach other at the outer edges.

rllhe width of the blanks 10 and 11 is sumcient to form a rolling collar on the shirt.. lfn consequence, it is necessary` to double the blank when the shirt is to be worn with a detachable collar. To render the doubledup collar suiiciently rigid ll provide reinforcing strips 14 which have a width -less than half the width of the blanks 10 and 11 fill that is, half the height of the collar, and

which are separated at the proximate edges by a gap 14', which gap is formed in the lace of the blank where the same folds to orm the collar. Preferably the edges at the ap areleft unsecured to the blank. The lanks 10'and 11 can be' folded outwardly, as shown in Fig. 5, or inwardly, as

edges 15 of the blank clear the buttonholes l 16 provided near the wider portions of the blanks 10 and 11.

`when the 0011er bami is 'renee 01awardly, as shown in Figs. 2, 5 and 7, the

" buttonholes 12 will be covered by the outer section of the collar band; and for this purpose it is provided with a buttonhole 17 which is adapted to register with the buttonhole 12 so that a collar button 18 can passvfrom beyond the inner blank 11 out through the folded section of the inner blank. 0n the other hand, when the collar band is folded inwardly, as shown in 4Fi s.

edges 15 of fthe hole 16.

When the shirt is to be worn with' a roll-"- blanks lclear the buttoning collar the blank 11 is folded outwardly,

bringing the blank 10 against the back of the shirt. This will bring the sloping edges substantially parallel with the front opening of the shlrt, while the outer edges run diagonally so as to give the shirt the appearance of one having a rolling collar.

From the description it Will be seen that a shirt made in the manner described can be easily and quickly transformed from one having a rolling collar to one with a neckas the case'may be.

I claim:

l. In a shirt of the class described, a neckband formed of a rear or outer blank and an arch-shaped inner blank the upper portion of which is similar in shape to the rear or outer blank, said blanks being secured band for a detachable collar, stiff or soft to each other at their outer edges, the inner blank being also secured to the shirt at the front openlng, and reinforcing strips between said blanks havlng a gap running longitudinally of said blanks and Iwhich facllitates the folding of said blanks substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a shirt of the class described, a neckband formed of a rear or outer blank and an arch-shaped inner blank the upper portion of Which is shaped similarly to the rear or outer blank, said blanks having button holes at the front, the upper edges of said 'blank tapering toward the side edges so that When said neckband is folded to receive a detachable collar the tapering upper edge of the band Will present a clearance at the button holes.

ABRAHAM FISHER. 

